The splendid library of the late Theodore N. Vail of New York
1922
Comprising a large variety of the choicest colored plate books by Alken, Cruikshank, and Rowlandson an extensive collection of the first editions of Dickens and Thackeray, the former with manuscripts and original drawings the Kilmarnock burns Paradise Lost, with the first title-page editio princeps of Imitatio Christi a large collection of autograph letters and relics of George Washington, including a complete set of the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, with his autograph and bookplate in each volume original letters of John Eliot, the famous Apostle to the Indians the four folios of Shakespeare and rare Americana ; McKay, 8461 ; Place of sale: New York ; Date of sale: May 2-6, 1922
